Asia: Doctoring the Economy

Until a few years ago the most important asset
in the prefecture of Okayama, 350 miles southwest of Tokyo, was the
scenery. The people, mostly small farmers and fishermen, were among the
poorest in Japan. Today, Okayama reverberates with the din of
industrial expansionso much so that last week Emperor Hirohito made
one of his rare trips out of Tokyo to see for himself what was going on
in Okayama and to meet the man responsible, a teetotaling bachelor
physician named Yukiharu Miki.